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September 10 2020

27th ‘SibWoodExpo’ exhibition opened its doors in Bratsk.

International exhibition ‘SibWoodExpo’ opened its doors on September 9, 2020 in Theater and concert centre ‘Bratsk-ART’. Exhibition of modern developments brought together participants from different regions of Russia and foreign countries, which indicates the high interest and importance of this event.

At the opening ceremony Konstantin Borisovich Zaitsev - First Deputy Governor of the Irkutsk Region, Chairman of the Government of the Irkutsk Region made his welcoming speech:

This event plays an important role: the forestry industry is very important for the economy of the Irkutsk region. More than 70 million hectares are covered with forest today, so the total timber stock is about 9 billion cubic meters. 30 million are harvested annually, and our task is to do everything in order to effectively use and preserve this wealth. Today it is important to see what new technologies have appeared, to note new methods of harvesting and processing, to see the equipment, and, of course, to establish business contacts.

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Alexey Ivanovich Sobol - Presdent of the Union ‘Chamber of Commerce and Industry of East Siberia’ noted:

I would like to congratulate you on the start of the exhibition, which is being held for the 27th time. The timber industry complex is one of the leading sectors of the economy. About 2 thousand enterprises, 7.7 billion rubles of budget revenues and this is only for the last year. This shows how important the sector of the economy is for us. I have noted that many of the entrepreneurs have begun to realize their responsibility to what is being done in the forestry complex. I believe, there is a certain balance of interests between the state, environmentalists and the business community at this hall. I strongly believe that the business programme of the exhibition will benefit all entrepreneurs, and will not only allow them to get acquainted with new technologies and equipment, but also make new business contacts, and also sign new contracts.

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Mayor of Bratsk Sergey Vasilyevich Serebrennikov welcomed everyone

I would like to remind you that this is the second time that ‘SibWoodExpo’, a very important and high-status exhibition, is being held in the city of Bratsk. Bratsk is the center of logging and woodworking industry and we are really proud of it. It's time to start not only wood processing and logging, but also reforestation. Bratsk is also unique in that a full cycle of wood processing is carried out here, thanks to advanced enterprises. We hope that today's exhibition will be useful for all manufacturers.

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Acting Minister of the Forestry Complex of the Irkutsk Region Dmitry Valerievich Petrenev made his welcoming speech too:

Well-known circumstances, related to the pandemic didn`t allow some of the participants and visitors come to the exhibition. The event itself was also under threat of cancellation, but we nevertheless came here, and we hope that next year in the city of Bratsk we would hold this event again in a wider format. On behalf of Sergei Fateevich Brilka, a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, I want to say that during its existence the exhibition has obtained the status of an authoritative platform for establishing productive contacts between foreign and domestic manufacturers. Today it is especially important, because Irkutsk region is the ‘green wealth’ of country. I strongly believe that this year exhibition will be more constructive and will be helpful to the opening of new possibilities not only in woodworking and wood harvesting, but also in reforestation. This will serve to create new competitive industries both in our region and in Russia

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Next, Ilya Sergeevich Sitov - Rector of the Bratsk State University noted:

I want to congratulate you on the opening of the exhibition! It is very symbolic that Bratsk is the forest capital not only of Siberia, but of the Russian Federation, and university with a specialized faculty of the forestry complex system is located here. Our University trains personnel for the timber industry. I would like to thank the organizers for the opportunity to make a speech today, talk about the problems, prospects and development trends of the forestry industry, as well as discuss training for it.

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Shapovalov Andrey Gennadievich - General Director of ‘Sibexpocentre’ OJSC declared the exhibition opened:

Unfortunately, some foreign partners will not be able to take part in the exhibition this year for obvious reasons - the borders are closed. Nevertheless, there is already a rather interesting exposition and a good business program here. There was a big question whether the exhibition would take place this year or not. However, the exhibition opened its doors today. Many thanks to everyone who came and took part in our event. German companies and Japanese centers that are engaged in the development of reforestation technologies and ecology are also ready to join the next year business program. As for the 19 universities that were supposed to come to the exhibition, they would be in touch with us remotely. the business program will be interesting and relevant. Many thanks to everyone who supports ‘Sibexpocentre’, thanks to the government and the ministry for this month we managed to save this project. I want to congratulate everyone on their professional holiday and declare the exhibition open!

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In the framework of the exhibition there will be a lot of interesting events, which will touch upon the urgent topics of the forestry complex of Irkutsk region. One of the key events of the exhibition was the plenary session. It will be held at the same days as opening ceremony. ‘Topical issues of the development of the Siberian forest complex at the present stage’ was the name of the session. At the conference hall speakers raised the following urgent topics: ‘Development of the forest complex based on peculiarities of forest management in the Irkutsk region’, ‘Relevance of forest management materials in the Irkutsk region’, ‘Problems and perspectives of logging’ , ‘Experience of the city of Bratsk in the development of the forest complex and deep woodworking’ , ‘Digital transformation of forestry and state traceability system of wood origin’, ‘Revision of customs duties and a quota mechanism for the export of Siberian timber species and introduction of space monitoring and biometrics to record and control the movement of timber as ways of developing the timber industry complex of the Irkutsk region’, ‘Modern approaches in education for the forestry industry’

Moreover, the Ministry of forestry of the Irkutsk region organized Round table dedicated to the compensatory reforestation in the Irkutsk region on the first day of the exhibition. Within the round table, participants of the event discussed such issues as: special features of carrying out and accepting works on ‘compensatory’ reforestation, practice of ‘compensatory’ reforestation on the territory of the Bratsk forestry, design of works on artificial and combined reforestation, features of reforestation processes in the Irkutsk region, analysis of promising technologies for reforestation work, and others

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The business programme of the exhibition will continue to September 10. At the ‘white hall’ there will be seminar on ‘Problematic issues arising in the development of forest development projects’. In addition to the seminar, there will also be round table on prevention of forest fires and protection of fires from harmful organisms. Within the seminar, participants will discuss fire hazardous season 2020, forest protection in the Irkutsk region, problems and ways to solve them, prediction of spreading of foci of the Siberian silkworm in the Irkutsk region. Participants will also talk about prospects for the use of instrumental methods for assessing the quality of stem wood of ripe damaged by stem pests and diseases.

Round table ‘Solving the problems of timber industry development at the present stage’ will be held on September 10. The speakers will tell about the problems of training personnel for the Russian forestry complex, problems of assessing the negative impact on the environment of forestry enterprises, supply of raw materials for sawmills. Among the Interesting topics also will be: reducing the negative impact of tracked all-terrain vehicles for forestry and logging, using of geosynthetic materials in the construction of ice crossings and more.

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At the ‘Bratsk- Art’ site companies from different regions of the Russia present their services and products. Among the participants are companies from Moscow, Perm, Irkutsk, Bratsk, Kovrov, Krasnoyarsk, and Barnaul. Even representatives of the foreign companies from Sweden and Germany applied to our event. Moreover, KVARNSTRANDS VERKTYG AB, Esterer WD GmbH participate in our exhibition again.

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The activities of the event participants cover all aspects of the forest industry: production of industrial equipment and machine tools, professional woodworking tools, all types of sawmills, machine - building enterprises, supply of spare parts, wood-cutting tools, consumables for repairing and sharpening saws, hot water, thermal oil and steam boilers, equipment for preparing pellets and briquettes, maintenance of construction, road, forest equipment, spare parts for special equipment and much more.

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We will be glad to see you at our exhibition SIBWOODEXPO-2020 at Theatre and concert centre ‘Bratsk-Art’. The event will be held on September 9-11 from 10am to 5pm.